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Oh BTW The holes are just the nerve channel which runs down the tusk the Cantonese carvers used up as much of the ivory as they could because it was so expensive. Chessspy
Ty is right, except it certainly looks like ivory to me, you just need to check and see if the cross hatching of the ivory shows anywhere. These type of pawns sell all the time on ebay there are some ...

Hi, I think you are about right in your estimate of date on this set, it's a bit young to be really collectable and if you could get rid of the ink stain on the white queen it would look better. On th...